Question

Read the passage given below and then answer the questions (a), (b)
and (c) that follow:
Nevertheless, the actual struggle does not commence this moment.
You have only placed all your powers in my hands. I will now wait upon
the Viceroy and plead with him for the acceptance of the Congress
demand. The fourteenfold constructive programme is, of course, there
for you to carry out. What more should you do? I will tell you. Every one
of you should, from this moment onwards, consider yourself a free man
or woman, and act as if you are free and are no longer under the heel of
this imperialism.
It is not a make-believe that I am suggesting to you. It is the very
essence of freedom. The bond of the slave is snapped the moment he
considers himself to be a free being. He will plainly tell the master: 'I was
your bondslave till this moment, but I am a slave no longer. You may kill
me if you like, but if you keep me alive, I wish to tell you that if you release
me from the bondange of your own accord, I will ask for nothing more
from you. You used to feed and clothe me, though I could have provided
food and clothing for myself by my labour. I hitherto depended on you
instead of on God, for food and raiment. God has now inspired me with
an urge for freedom and I am today a free man and will no longer depend
on you.'
You may take it from me that I am not going to strike a bargain with
the Viceroy for ministries and the like. I am not going to be satisfied with
ibing short of complete freedom. Maybe, he will propose the abolition
will say: 'Nothing less than freedom.'
imprint it on your hearts and let every breath of yours give expression to it. The mantra
is: 'Do or Die.' We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall
not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery. Every true Congressman
or [Congress] woman will join the struggle with an inflexible determination
not to remain alive to see the country in bondage and slavery. Let that
be your pledge. Keep jails out of your consideration. If the Government
keeps me free, I will spare you the trouble of filling the jails. I will not put
on the Government the strain of maintaining a large number of prisoners
at a time when it is in trouble. Let every man and woman live every moment
of his or her life hereafter in the consciousness that he or she eats or
lives for achieving freedom and will die, if need be, to attain that goal.
Take a pledge with God and your own conscience as witness, that you
will no longer rest till freedom is achieved and will be prepared to lay down
your lives in the attempt to achieve it. He who loses his life will gain it; he
who will seek to save it shall lose it. Freedom is not for coward or the
faint-hearted.
From the speech during the passing of 'Quit India' Resolution-
Mahatma Gandhi
QUESTIONS
(a) Give the meaning of each of the following five words, as used in the
passage:(1) snapped, (ii) bondslave, (iii) raiment, (iv)perpetuation, (v) inflexible
(b) Answer the following questions in your own words:
(i) What should Indians consider themselves as the movement starts?
(ii) How and when does a bondman snap his chains and become free?
(iii) What would Mahatma Gandhi ask from the Viceroy?
(iv) What was Gandhiji's mantra for the people? .
(v) What should be the pledge of every Congressman and woman?
(vi) Explain the underlying idea of the quotation : "He who loses his life.
will gain it; he who will seek to save it shall lose it."
(c) (i) Summarize Mahatma Gandhi's speech as given above in 60 words.
(ii) Give a title to your description given in (c)(i). State a reason to justify your choice.​